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Post by shescurling on Apr 10, 2011 13:34:05 GMT
I think I have every hurling/football club in the County listed below. I am going to rate their playing surface and not their facilities. The rating I am giving is based on the last time I was there. Give me a hand on the ones I haven't commented on.
Abbeydorney: Mint
Annascaul: Good
Ardfert: Hole
Asdee: Poor
Austin Stacks: Very good
Ballydonoghue: Poor
Ballyduff: Upper: Hole. Lower: Very good
Ballyheigue : Good
Ballylongford: Good
Ballymacelligott: Hole
Beale: Average surface, excellent drainage.
Beaufort: Very good
Brosna: Very good
Castlegregory: Cant remember
Castleisland Desmonds: Average
Causeway: Never there
Churchill: Good surface. Awful small and hilly.
Clounmacon: Poor
Cordal: Never there
Cromane: Very good
Crotta O'Neills: Minted latley
Currow: Poor
Sneem/Derrynane: Never there
Dingle: Very good
Dr. Crokes: Mint
Dromid Pearses: Never there
Duagh: Good
Finuge: Average
Firies: Good
Fossa: Very good
Gaeltacht : Average
Gale Rangers: Never there
Glenbeigh/Glencar: Poor
Glenflesk: Poor
Gneeveguilla: Poor
John Mitchels: Average
Keel: Too long ago to rate
Kenmare: Never there
Kerins O'Rahillys: Very good
Kilcummin: Very good
Kilgarvan: Never there
Kilmoyley: Never there
Knockanure: Hole
Knocknagoshel: Poor
Ladies' Walk: Use Ballyduff
Laune Rangers : Mint
Legion: Mint
Lispole: Very good
Listowel Emmets: Average
Listry: Good
Lixnaw: Very good
Milltown/Castlemaine: Very good
Moyvane: Good
Na Gaeil: Good
Rathmore: 2 Very good pitches
Renard: Cant remember.
Scartaglen: Poor
Skellig Rangers: Average
Spa: Never there
St Patricks: Very good
St Senans: Good
St. Brendans: See Ardfert
St. Marys: Very good
St. Michaels/Foilmore: Never there
St. Patricks: ??
Tarbert: Average
Templenoe: Very good
Tuosist: Hole
Valentia: Poor
Waterville: Never there
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Post by shaggy04 on Apr 10, 2011 18:19:49 GMT
glenbeighs pitch is crap,bog hole when it rains, like concrete when its dry,and usually covered in gravel! duaghs pitch in the village is very sloped, as is churchills. tousist is like a farmers field. milltown and beaufort can be very heavy at one stage renard had a drain along the side of the pitch big enough to bury a car in! derrynane, nice pitch but very small. dromid is nice except for the midges! good pitches, firies listry fossa crokes senans templenoe knocknagree (great flooglights) ballyduff knocknagree is in cork (pedantic, i know) good calls other than that I actually played a match against rathmore out there, said id give it a mention, lights are * hot The dressing rooms in beale are like something out of the saw/texas chainsaw movies |
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Post by shaggy04 on Apr 10, 2011 18:26:24 GMT
Shaggy04 knocknagree isn't in kerry! I know i know, Is that yhe seamus moynihan gouging photo, was on about that a few weeks ago! |
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Post by powerade1000 on Apr 10, 2011 21:31:06 GMT
Moyvane have the best pitch and north kerry and the crokes is probly the best in kerry
asdee and knockanure are bye far the worst pitches in kerry take your pick which is worse really
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Post by hupskip on Apr 11, 2011 11:15:23 GMT
With relation to the hurling pitches in Kerry, Kilmoyley and Abbeydorney are the two stand out pitches, both are excellent surfaces for fast hurling. Ardfert is probably the worst, far too small and the posts are far too short. Ballyheigue gets too hard during the summer, Crotta and Lixnaw are a bit too soft and Crotta suffers from the dreaded midges too. Ballyduff and Causeways pitches are only fair at best.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2011 11:44:31 GMT
Ya that's the one shaggy, actually went looking for it after you mentioned it!! Its an eye gouge fish hook cork combo!
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Post by yellowsubmarine on Apr 11, 2011 16:20:51 GMT
I think I have every hurling/football club in the County listed below. I am going to rate their playing surface and not their facilities. The rating I am giving is based on the last time I was there. Give me a hand on the ones I haven't commented on. Abbeydorney: Mint Annascaul: Good Ardfert: Hole Asdee: Poor Austin Stacks: Very good Ballydonoghue: Poor Ballyduff: Upper: Hole. Lower: Very good Ballyheigue : Good Ballylongford: Good Ballymacelligott: Hole Beale: Average surface, excellent drainage. Beaufort: Very good Brosna: Very good Castlegregory: Cant remember Castleisland Desmonds: Average Causeway: Never there Churchill: Good surface. Awful small and hilly. Clounmacon: Poor Cordal: Never there Cromane: Very good Crotta O'Neills: Minted latley Currow: Poor Sneem/Derrynane: Never there Dingle: Very good Dr. Crokes: Mint Dromid Pearses: Never there Duagh: Good Finuge: Average Firies: Good Fossa: Very good Gaeltacht : Average Gale Rangers: Never there Glenbeigh/Glencar: Poor Glenflesk: Poor Gneeveguilla: Poor John Mitchels: Average Keel: Too long ago to rate Kenmare: Never there Kerins O'Rahillys: Very good Kilcummin: Very good Kilgarvan: Never there Kilmoyley: Never there Knockanure: Hole Knocknagoshel: Poor Ladies' Walk: Use Ballyduff Laune Rangers : Mint Legion: Mint Lispole: Very good Listowel Emmets: Average Listry: Good Lixnaw: Very good Milltown/Castlemaine: Very good Moyvane: Good Na Gaeil: Good Rathmore: 2 Very good pitches Renard: Cant remember. Scartaglen: Poor Skellig Rangers: Average Spa: Never there St Patricks: Very good St Senans: Good St. Brendans: See Ardfert St. Marys: Very good St. Michaels/Foilmore: Never there St. Patricks: ?? Tarbert: Average Templenoe: Very good Tuosist: Hole Valentia: Poor Waterville: Never there Played in Glenflesk recently its v good surface!Rathmore 1st pitch is v poor but their new 1 is v good!Spa pitch is prob one of the worse pitches ive played on the last 2 years hill on it and all holes in it.Gneeveguilla s is decent in good weather.How can u say Legion pitch is mint??St Pats field is a nice pitch!Castlegregory is average!Kenmare & Kilgarven pitches are mint to be fair to them excellent surfaces!Cordal,Dromid,Sneem/Derrynane & Keel pitches are fair poor standard! |
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Post by twinkletoes on Apr 11, 2011 18:19:40 GMT
Keel is a nice pitch bar the grit used... A lot of pitches use quarry sand instead of the better natural sand, makes a huge difference to fall on
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Post by shannonsider on Apr 11, 2011 18:25:04 GMT
Worst pitch ever was probably the old pitch in Knocknagoshel...a literal hole! New pitch there is ok tho. The old pitch in Castlegregory led to many a game of "two halves" aswell, and there was always a hoor of a wind blowing in off Tralee bay!
Best pitches in Kerry that I know of would be Moyvane, Lewis Road, Fitzgerald stadium and Fossa in no particular order.
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Post by kerrygold on Apr 11, 2011 19:15:07 GMT
Outside of Con keating Park of course, where the Peninsula's footballing artists have congregated over the decades, the best venue for football in the county has to be Stacks Park. A brilliant Mecca for kerry's finest. Thankfully it wont become a high rise car park now, or what ever other celtic tiger crap is was intented for.
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Post by fiveeights on Apr 11, 2011 22:54:11 GMT
listry best in east kerry crokes excellent spa poor glenflesk too small bumpy firies worst
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Post by harloon on Apr 11, 2011 23:02:16 GMT
Cromane have thee Worst pitch in Kerry!! Grass is always long and cant never hop the ball!! Kilgarven is in good nick!! Was in Ballylongford too and reckon its well kept!! Gaeltachts is terrible too with divets and hills.........
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Post by Jo90 on Apr 12, 2011 8:45:01 GMT
The last time I played in Gneeveguilla pitch there was sheepsh*t all over it.
Any other pitches that use the same fertiliser?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2011 8:51:46 GMT
You must be pushing on 70 years og age so jo90!!
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Post by animal on Apr 12, 2011 9:20:44 GMT
Did anyone here play on the old Fossa pitch before they built their new facilities?
Hardest pitch in Kerry I reckon even in winter. Not to mention the portakabin changing facilities!
Good times...
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Post by mj on Apr 12, 2011 9:47:21 GMT
Did anyone here play on the old Fossa pitch before they built their new facilities? Hardest pitch in Kerry I reckon even in winter. Not to mention the portakabin changing facilities! Good times... its still in use, fossa played a super league game there this year. its in great condition, although the lines on the pitch are questionable. 45 line is only bout 40 out. portakabinswerent in use that day. also think st pats play their hurling games there?? in fairness to fossa the facilities at the new pitch are awesome but i can never understand why people put a door that links 2 dressing rooms |
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Post by animal on Apr 12, 2011 10:24:39 GMT
Agree. Fossa did a great job. I just have memories from the early 90s of bouncing balls sailing over my head when on any other pitch they would have landed into my chest!
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Post by ob1 on Apr 12, 2011 14:11:35 GMT
Kilmoyley has a savage surface. It's like carpet. The floodlights in O'Dorney are a gift if they could get the surface right it'd be the same. Very patchy in places. Crotta is a disaster. Many a twisted ankle on that pitch and the same can be said of Causeway.
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Post by kerrygold on Apr 12, 2011 15:05:19 GMT
Agree. Fossa did a great job. I just have memories from the early 90s of bouncing balls sailing over my head when on any other pitch they would have landed into my chest! Maybe the bounching over your head got more pronounced as you started to experience discos et al, perhaps?  |
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Post by aussierules on Apr 12, 2011 18:25:34 GMT
Best pitch in West Kerry has to be Lispole , good solid pitch , the worst has to be between An Ghaeltacht's slopped and always windy and cold back there. For the amount of money Castlegregory spent its a very bad pitch when it rains . Best pitch in Mid Kerry has to be Laune Rangers , Glenbeigh the worst . East Kerry goes to Dr Crokes and the worst is Scartaglens. Out North way has to be Emmetts the worst in my view is Beales.......
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Post by Laoch na hImeartha on Apr 12, 2011 20:51:42 GMT
Having played football all over the county and rugby all over the province, the overall standard of GAA pitches should make us all proud. Rugby pitches for the most part are a joke. I remember playing in Killarney near the Legion I was nearly drowned at the bottom of a ruck, and the dressing rooms were 2 containers from the 1800s! Most CLG clubs have great facilities and pitches. And we're an ametuer organisation compared to the rugby professionals supposedly! That said, Pairc an Aghasaigh can be a bog at times  |
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Post by harloon on Apr 13, 2011 17:25:08 GMT
Pairc an Aghasaigh doesnt have the best facilities either!! BallyHeigue have a state of the art Hall with astro turf inside!! Very impressive!!
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Post by hupskip on Apr 13, 2011 17:42:35 GMT
Ballyheigues pitch is a health hazard during the summer, far too hard and a lot of holes around the goal areas
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Post by animal on Apr 14, 2011 8:35:56 GMT
Agree. Fossa did a great job. I just have memories from the early 90s of bouncing balls sailing over my head when on any other pitch they would have landed into my chest! Maybe the bounching over your head got more pronounced as you started to experience discos et al, perhaps? Ah yes....Revelles and the DannyMan the ruin of many a good East Kerry footballer! |
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Post by yellowsubmarine on Apr 14, 2011 10:35:28 GMT
Maybe the bounching over your head got more pronounced as you started to experience discos et al, perhaps? Ah yes....Revelles and the DannyMan the ruin of many a good East Kerry footballer! Jes you are old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Post by kot on Apr 14, 2011 10:49:56 GMT
Ah yes....Revelles and the DannyMan the ruin of many a good East Kerry footballer! Jes you are old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Would you believe I was going to post the exact same thing. Although I have frequented 1 of those haunts many times in the past so it doesn't really bode well for me! |
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Post by Annascaultilidie on Apr 14, 2011 11:45:54 GMT
Maybe the bounching over your head got more pronounced as you started to experience discos et al, perhaps? Ah yes....Revelles and the DannyMan the ruin of many a good East Kerry footballer! Jesus had great craic with some Down boys there late Saturday night. Once we set the ground rules --- no Paul Galvin talk --- they were at it straight away: "Maurice Fitzgerald or Colm Cooper?" |
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Post by ArthurG on Apr 14, 2011 13:08:14 GMT
Ballydonoghue is Poor... cromane is a hole crokes pitch is probly the best Definitely Agree. Not sure about Crokes being the best buts its up there. Also, Glenbeigh is cat, Gallarus has good facilities but its too hard in the summer and always windy. Clounmacon is nothing to write home about nor is St Pats in Blenerville - Is that slope still on the left hand side of the pitch as its a while since saw it last. Did they do anything to Connolly park recently? I remember playing there a few years ago and was shocked at how bumpy it was. It was also very hard to see the goal posts as they were painted black and amber. |
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Post by westkerryman01 on Apr 15, 2011 17:01:09 GMT
Ah lads, motm yur surely throwing a dig at Dingle there! Pairc an Aghasaigh has one of the top 5 all year round pithes in kerry and are after doing the goal mouths now which makes it more impressive! Lispole is a nice pitch too, Galarus is small and bumpy but I always liked playing there, anascails looks brutal lately-half the pitch with little/no grass and the other half in need of a haircut! Castle is nice in summer but wet and soggy in the lower part by winter..
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Post by Annascaultilidie on Apr 15, 2011 17:05:16 GMT
...anascails looks brutal lately-half the pitch with little/no grass and the other half in need of a haircut! Don't be dissing the Stade de Annascaul!! ;D |
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